Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-12

side the sea. IT has conquered Eng
J land and the United States. This
| champion dclusion, this hoax, this
swindle of the ages, as it has been
called, has gone forth to conquer the
islands Of the Pacific; the Melanasia
and the Micronesia and Malayan Poly
ncsia have alrsady surrendered TO the
delusion. Yea, it has conquered the
Indian Archipelago; and Borneo, and
Sumatra and Celebes and Java have
fallen under its wiies. In the Fiji
Islands, where there are 100, 900 peo-
pie, 1902, 900 have already become the
dupes of this Christian religion, and if
things go on rs they are now going IN,
and if the influence Of this great hallu-
ciuation of the ages canno be
stopped, it will swallow the globe.
Supposing, her that the Chris
| tianity is the deiusion of the cen
turtles. as some nave pronounced it. l
propose this morning to show you
what has been accomplished by this
chimora, this fallacy, this hoax, this
swindle of the ages.
And in the first place, / remark that
InlS ucluSlOn OF the
CHRISTIAN RELIGION
has made wonderful transformations Of
human character. | will 90 down the
aisle of any church in ~Christendom,
and ! will find on either side that aisle
those who were once proiligate, pro-
fame, u~nclean of speech and unclean of
action, drunken and lost. But by the
,A.-,x "a H., Ial.-..A- e H. Il.,t.n&
religion they have been completely
transformed, and now they are kind,
amiable and genial and loving and
useful. Everybody sees the change.
Under the power of this great hallu-
cination they have quit their former as
sociates, and whereas they once found
their chief delight among those who
gambled and sworc and raced horses,
now they find their chief JOY among
those who 90 to prayer meetings and
churches; so complete is the dclusion.
Yea, their own families have noticed it
tho wife has noticed it, the children
have noticed it. The money that
went for run now goes fol- books and
for clothes and for education. He is
q new man. All who know him say
there has been n wonderful change.
What is the cause Of this changer
This great hallucination of the Chris
tian religion. There is as much differ
ence between what he is now and what
he once was. rs between a rose and Il
n%cttle, rs between a dove and n vul-
ture, rs between day and night. Ire
mendous delusion!
Admiral Farragut, one of the most
admired men of the American navy,
early became n victim of this Christian
delusion, and. seated not long before
his death, ut Long Branch, he was
giving some friends an az
count Of his early life. He said:
my father went down in behalf of the
United States government to put an
end to
AARON BURR REBELLION.
! was a cabin boy and went along with
him. could swear like an old salt. |
could gamble in every style Of gam
bling. | knew all the wickedness there
was at that time abroad. One day my
father cleared everybody out of the
cabin except myself, and locked the
door. He said: David, what are you
going to dop What are you going to
bep' Well | said, father. am gong
to follow the sea- Follow the sea!
and be Il poor miserable, drunken sail
or. kicked and cuflci about the world
and die of n fever in a foreign hos
pitalP' ooh. no. | said, father, | will
not be that; | will tread the quarter
deck and command, rs you do NO,
David my father said; no, David, n
person that has your principles and
your bad habits will never tread the
quarterback or command My father
went out and shut the door after him,
and | said then: Il will change, | will
never swear again, | will never gamble
again; and. gentlemen, by the help of
God | have kept those three vows to
this time. | soon after that became IA
Christian, and that decided my fate
for time and eternity"
Another captive Of this great Chris
tian delusion! There goes Saul of Tar
sus on horseback at full gallop. Where
is he going? To destroy Christians.
He wants no better play-spell than to
stand and watch the hats and coats of
the murderers who are ~naassacring
Gods children. There goes the same
man. This time he is afoot. Where
is he going now? Going on the road
to Ostia to die for Christ. They tried
to whip it out of him, they tried to
scare it out of him, they thought they
would give him enough of it by putting
him into a windowless dungeon,
and keeping him on small diet.
and denying him a cloak, and
condemning him as a criminal, and
bowling at him through the street; but
they could not freeze it out of him, and
they could not sweat it out of him, and
they could not pound it oot of him, SO
they tried the surgery Of the sword,
and one summer day in &C he was de-
capitatcd. Perhaps the mightiest in
%tellect of the 5000 years of the worlds
existence hoodwinked, cheated. ca
joled, duped by the
CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
All! that is the remarkable thing about
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